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Independence, MO —
Playing with the wind in the first half, the Blue Springs South girls soccer team built a two-goal advantage at Truman Monday.
The visiting Jaguars then didn’t let the Patriots take similar advantage after halftime, walking away with a 7-0 win.
Six players scored goals for South (5-14), which is winless in Suburban Big Six play but has fashioned a .500 mark outside of it. Truman fell to 13-7.
“Our spacing and passing was very good, and our confidence was very good,” South coach Todd Findley said.
“We’d come off a tough game with Liberty where they just blew us out of the water. Our conference sets us up to sink or swim – Liberty, Lee’s Summit, Lee’s Summit North and Ray-Pec are tough. We’ve had a lot of one-goal losses. But coming here we felt we could showcase things we’ve learned over playing a tough conference schedule.”
Credit for the Jaguars’ first score at the 8:26 mark went to Natalie Mandina. Her deflected shot trickled past goalie Maya Coen toward the goal line, where Truman defender Shayla Jochum tried in vain to boot a clear-away.
Seven minutes later, the Jaguars made it 2-0 when Michelle Pace corralled a throw-in from Alexis Shuker and booted a 22-yard rainbow that floated over Coen’s reach and bounced into the net.
Though Truman kept South off the board the rest of the half, the Patriots had all sorts of problems working the ball out of their territory, as numerous goal kicks and other boots into the air got knocked down by the stiff wind and the Jaguars played a credible possession game.
“I thought it could’ve been more, but two is good,” Findley said. “It lets the girls play with some confidence; play more on the attack than they normally would and put more players forward.”
That attack produced a third goal at 51:14, when Emily Griffin beat Coen to a through-ball from Kelsie Howe and knocked in a 15-yarder. In the next two minutes, Kelly Voigt scored on a penalty kick and Rachel Landon knocked in a rebound from Jordan McNamara’s rifled shot to make it 5-0.
“We struggled a bit in the first half, but the second we settled down,” said Voigt, who made it 6-0 at the 59:51 with her second goal, a 22-yarder. “We didn’t want to play over-top. We wanted to find feet, find feet. We did a good job of talking. That’s a been problem sometimes.”
Playing with the wind in the first half, the Blue Springs South girls soccer team built a two-goal advantage at Truman Monday.
The visiting Jaguars then didn’t let the Patriots take similar advantage after halftime, walking away with a 7-0 win.
Six players scored goals for South (5-14), which is winless in Suburban Big Six play but has fashioned a .500 mark outside of it. Truman fell to 13-7.
“Our spacing and passing was very good, and our confidence was very good,” South coach Todd Findley said.
“We’d come off a tough game with Liberty where they just blew us out of the water. Our conference sets us up to sink or swim – Liberty, Lee’s Summit, Lee’s Summit North and Ray-Pec are tough. We’ve had a lot of one-goal losses. But coming here we felt we could showcase things we’ve learned over playing a tough conference schedule.”
Credit for the Jaguars’ first score at the 8:26 mark went to Natalie Mandina. Her deflected shot trickled past goalie Maya Coen toward the goal line, where Truman defender Shayla Jochum tried in vain to boot a clear-away.
Seven minutes later, the Jaguars made it 2-0 when Michelle Pace corralled a throw-in from Alexis Shuker and booted a 22-yard rainbow that floated over Coen’s reach and bounced into the net.
Though Truman kept South off the board the rest of the half, the Patriots had all sorts of problems working the ball out of their territory, as numerous goal kicks and other boots into the air got knocked down by the stiff wind and the Jaguars played a credible possession game.
“I thought it could’ve been more, but two is good,” Findley said. “It lets the girls play with some confidence; play more on the attack than they normally would and put more players forward.”
That attack produced a third goal at 51:14, when Emily Griffin beat Coen to a through-ball from Kelsie Howe and knocked in a 15-yarder. In the next two minutes, Kelly Voigt scored on a penalty kick and Rachel Landon knocked in a rebound from Jordan McNamara’s rifled shot to make it 5-0.
“We struggled a bit in the first half, but the second we settled down,” said Voigt, who made it 6-0 at the 59:51 with her second goal, a 22-yarder. “We didn’t want to play over-top. We wanted to find feet, find feet. We did a good job of talking. That’s a been problem sometimes.”
McNamara notched the last goal at 60:40, heading in a long throw-in from Shuker. All told, the Jaguars accumulated a 29-4 advantage in shots, including 19-2 on goal, and took six of the game’s seven corner kicks.
South starting goalie Kylie Young didn’t have to make a save in the first half, and Alex Carpenter took over for the second half.
Coen departed after the fifth goal, when she appeared to get hit in the head after her attempted save. She and Ajia Meyer combined for 12 saves.
“From the beginning, I wouldn’t say we came out to play,” Truman coach Jared Byrne said. “We didn’t really play with a sense of urgency, and when we had chances we wasted them by being offsides or not executing.
“I would say Blue Springs South played one of their best games all year, and we didn’t do anything to stop that.”
